Help Crayfish Creek! Volunteer Day

HELP CRAYFISH CREEK!

VOLUNTEER DAY

mARCH 4

9 AM - 2 PM

Volunteers needed to help install native plants and

habitat structures along the reconstructed stream

bank. 

Registration required. Visit crayfishcreek.org for more information.

Free lunch thanks to workday sponsor

HDR Engineering.

Crayfish Creek, located in Sugar Hill, GA near the Highway 20 Bridge overpass, is one of many tributaries to the Chattahoochee River. A tributary is a freshwater stream that feeds into a larger stream or river and plays a vital role in the overall ecosystem. Tributaries provide habitats, deliver nutrients, and move organic materials, sediment, and chemicals. Crayfish Creek is an important tributary of the Chattahoochee because it helps to maintain the water quality necessary for the successful spawning of brown trout.

Unfortunately, the Crayfish Creek tributary has become impaired due to erosion and lack of riparian canopy (the forest land adjacent to a stream). A large restoration effort is now underway initiated by members of the Upper Chattahoochee Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Oconee Chapter of Trout Unlimited (TU), and TU's University of Georgia Five Rivers Club. The Crayfish Creek Project now includes an impressive list of additional key project partners including CNPC.

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